Notes for Emma Uphoff: 1867 listed as a dressmaker in Oak Park IL directory. Probably still alive and not married in 1939
Her father, William Uphoff was the first depot operator at Cottage Grove. Emma was the telegraph operator.
One plat shows the William Uphoff's owning the land that later became William Duckert's. That house is just south of where Julius Neefe's store would have been.
More About Emma Uphoff: Census: January 6, 1920, Chicago, Cook Co., IL. Occupation 1: First telegraph operator at the Cottage Grove Depot. Occupation 2: January 6, 1920, dressmaker.